Hitting comic book stores Wednesday is volume 5 of the collected Peanuts comic books, published by Kaboom. This includes the three of my Peanuts stories for them – “Joe Stockcar”, “Press Here”, and “New Shoe Zoom”, with art by Andy Hirsch, Jeff Shultz, and Robert Pope, respectively. It also has …
Coming in November is a book that I alluded to a year back: A Charlie Brown Religion: The Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz, by (AAUGH Blog reader!) Stephen J. Lind. I’ve been waiting for someone to do a good book along these lines, and from what I’ve seen of Lind’s …
Amazon now has the third cover it’s displayed for my book The Snoopy Treasures, being released in November: It’s only a slight reworking from the second cover: Which was itself more of a variation from the first:
This is the released cover for this fall’s Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, by the esteemed Chip Kidd. Nice, eh?
Birds that Snoopy has imitated include: VULTURE PENGUIN FALCON
Happiness is… ordering the eBay lot of Peanuts items for the one item you really want, and then only realizing on receiving the lot that that “just another copy of Happiness is a Warm Puppy” that you didn’t care about is actually the German edition, which you didn’t already have!
Let me apologize for not keeping up with the blog; Peanuts books have been coming in, but I’ve been hectic with a variety of things, including some Peanuts-related work (we’re to the end of the process on my upcoming book The Snoopy Treasures), as well as life things. One of the things …
The cover for the upcoming book It’s a New World, Charlie Brown has been changed. It is now: when it was previously shown as:
The UK is getting some more titles not available on these shores… unless you order them shipped here, as these links will do. The Bumper Book of Peanuts (October) Hardcover of strips from the 1970s, 1980s. How to Be a Grrrl (November) by Lucy van Pelt
It’s been a while since we got a new aimed-at-the-school-library biography of Schulz. That drought ends in August with Charles Schulz, part of the Blastoff Readers line, written by Kari Schuetz. This Level 4 reader is now available for preorder.